House Proceeding 05-13-09 on May 13th, 2009 :: 0:15:00 to 0:17:45
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Ben Chandler: i urge a no vote on this bill and i time. the chair: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from california. mr. miller: i yield three minutes to mr. chandler who is an origina authorf this legislation, has been pushing school construction legislation for a number of years. three minutes. the chair: the gentleman from

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Speech By: Ben Chandler

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Ben Chandler: kentucky is recognized for three minutes. mr. chandler: thank you, mr. speaker, thank you, mr. chairman. i'm very proud to be here today to urge passage of the 21st century green high performing public school facilities act which authorizes $6.4 billion to help renovate and modernize our schools. this bill in my view is a home run.

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Ben Chandler: it will give much-needed money to our schools struggling with huge budget deficits and deteriorating facilities. while encouraging energy efficiency and creating jobs for americans that cannot be shipped overseas. i'd like to thank chairman miller, subcommittee chairman

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Ben Chandler: kildee, mr. loebsack and all of our co-sponsors and committee members for their work on this legislation. mr. speaker, we have the mightiest military in the world. we enjoy some of the most comprehensive freedoms and we have some of the world's best and brightest students who

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Ben Chandler: possess unlimited potential. but today many of our children are learning in crowded classrooms, with lead and asbestos, falling blaster, broken windows, outdated technology and crumbling infrastructure. where children learn has a large

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Ben Chandler: impact on what they learn. the u.s. department of education tells us that modern functional school facilities are critical for effective student learning. in 1995 the g.a.o. found that schools were in desperate need of r billion. over a decade later, we can be

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Ben Chandler: sure that the need is much, much greater. each day we're competing on a global stage with countries like india and china that are pooring into educating their children. investing in the education of our children at home is the key to staying in the game. if we want to brighten the future of the next generation,

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Ben Chandler: we have to invest in our if we want to ensure america's competitiveness on the world stage, we have to invest in our children. if we want to create jobs, if we want to save energy and if we